Hey everyone,
I’ve been changing my diet over the last couple months to exclude sugar, bread, and rice. I’m wondering if any of you are doing the same? If so, do you have any recipes that you particularly enjoy?
I find myself eating mostly oven roasted carrots, squash, zucchini, and cauliflower as my easy meal at home. I’d like to get more fish in my diet, but don’t know what to make with it that is easy. @frank_lima had a recipe that he told me of, but I didn’t write it down. Please Frank mind sharing it again?
Also, any one else have easy to throw together meals that don’t have bread, rice, or much sugar? Please share them.
Lightly spray a glass baking pan with PAM or rub a little oil on the glass. Rinse the salmon out of the package; and cut into smaller “fillets” if desired. Put the salmon in the pan. Season with your choice; olive oil or butter (both are completely optional), lemon pepper, dill weed, grated parmesan cheese … whatever you like. Bake at 350 degrees until done; about 10-15 minutes depending on the thickness of the salmon and how done you like it.
Nick try juicing, it will help with cleansing and give you instant nutrients that can be cooked out of food during preparation. It will also give the natural good sugars. Couple this with a daily smoothie to keep you full.
Salmon is great as it can be eaten smoked in salads. You can also get tuna steaks and get the cedar planks soak in water for an hour or so, throw the planks on the grill until smoking and then add your salmon cuts or tuna steaks.
Www.Bountifulbaskets.org is cooperative fruit/veggie “group?” i participate in. The Lewisville drop is at the Bolin Saturday mornings. You know I love cooperatives. It’s $15 or $25 for organic. It’s a very sizable amount of fruits and veggies and they offer addons that are sometimes good and sometimes meh.
Anyways, along with Dms it’s one of the community based things that make me think the world is an ok place to be.
Costco has this tortilla crusted taliapia that I love and the crust is worth the calories. Although I’m not loosing any weight I do try to heat heathy.
I like Cajun spices on fish. It’s easy to do in a broiler or in a pan.
One thing I love to do is get large carrots (fatter the better), russet potatoes, and large asparagus stalks. Cut the carrots lengthwise in half and the potatoes in slabs about 1/2" thick. Dip each of these veggies in melted butter and toss them on the grill with a little Lowery’s seasoned salt. They cook up wonderfully on the grill.
You can also do this with corn on the cob.
(Yes, I know butter isn’t healthy but most of the fat burns off anyway on the grill.)
I can’t wait to try all of theses. @John_Marlow and @frank_lima, Thanks for the fish options, I think I’ll be able to implement both of these. @rablack97 and @jphelps Juicing and Smoothies are a must, I have a Vitamix Blender at the house that I need to get back in the loop of using more regularly. @uglyknees Bountiful basket sounds like just the challenge I need to expand my veg options and the taliapia sound tasty. @Raymond I’m 100% with you on the carrots, I love cooked carrots, especially the large ones, where do you find the large ones? I end up with a large bag of the carrots slightly wider than a highlighter at my grocery store. Butter is also no concern for me, fat is pretty acceptable in my “wtf diet” I’ll watch the potatoes though, in my head they are close to bread or rice on the carbs side of things.
Say, I tried carbonating fruit once using this approach and it was not effective. Any tips?
I have a theory that states the more I shop at Natural Grocers, Sprouts, farmers markets and similar the healthier I will eat. My weakness for all things bad is throwing off my results though
@jphelps, I force carbonated my fruit in a Cornelius Keg at 10 PSI with a paint ball CO2 tank. It worked really well, even though my keg had a leak and I used up about 3 pounds of CO2. It takes hours for the CO2 to dissolve in the fruit, I see most guides tell you 10 plus hours.
The cooler technique works, you just have to wrap the cooler in multiple layers of cling wrap, because you want the pressure to increase in the cooler, but you also want the cling wrap to be the failure point if the pressure is too high.
Last warning, the carbonation makes the fruit a bit sour. This was particularly true with the oranges, as the ones I grabbed were not particularly sweet, and when carbonated they were actually kind of tart.
@rablack97 That sounds like a fun idea, I’ll consider the smoothie class. I think many would be surprised as to how little spinach changes the flavor of a fruit smoothie. Unfortunately, it really changes the color which some find off putting.
For me healthy and sweet are often at odds with each other. I’m unforgiving to the use of artificial sweeteners as sweet things to me only make me crave more sweet things. After a few months of not eating much of anything sweet, I’ve seen the craving nearly disappear. But, when I break a rule and steal one of my roommates Ice Cream Cones, I feel those sugar hooks lock right back in. So I’m particularly cautious to sweets like fruit.
An internet search of “healthy diet” brings up a lot of options but they all seem to follow a few rules, one being assessing how you feel after you eat and pursuing those foods that give you the most satisfaction and another being that the calories eaten needs to be matched by calories exercised.
The modern life which brings us many of the tools we use at Dallas Makerspace also provides activity trackers with which you can gather data about your calories exercised versus calories eaten. Using these tools with their programs can be a real eye opener, at least it was with me and helped me make a few changes that were helpful to my losing weight. You will see that you have many options about how you can manage your activities and eating. Click here to check out some of these devices.
Your incorrect. Carrots are much lower in sugar than the fruits we normally buy like apples and oranges. Also, carrot are marginally lower in carbohydrates than common fruits, but carrors are much lower in carbohydrates than rice, bread, or potatos (the key heavy carbs that I’ve cut from my diet).
I’m not sure what point your trying to make? I try not to eat fruit because sugar, not carbs. I try not to eat rice, bread and potatoes because of the high carbs.
The point was that if you want to avoid sugar and carbs, carrots are fairly high in both. Per your chart 4.7g/100g of Sugar and another 4.9g/100g in other carbs.
Walter your arguing nothing. I’m in no way doing some kind of perfect No Carb, No Sugar diet. I’m eating healthier than the High Carb and High Sugar diet that I use to eat. Your just trying to start arguments. I’m sorry I threw the stick. Please go play fetch some where else.
